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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 9 days Dremio's roles stay open a median of 18 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Dremio's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Dremio
- moderate 1 stale, 0 reposted of 6 open
- Hiring momentum
- 6 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on Dremio's Query Execution team, you will design and implement the execution engine for analytical queries, focusing on performance optimization and resource management. Your responsibilities include diagnosing performance issues, collaborating with various teams for query improvements, and applying AI-assisted tools for development. You will also participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers to raise the engineering standards within the team.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in database systems or distributed systems
- Strong Java programming skills; experience with C++ is a plus
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and multithreaded programming
- Understanding of database internals, query processing, and performance optimization
- Experience profiling and optimizing CPU, memory, and garbage collection
- Ability to solve ambiguous technical problems and work across team boundaries
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed query engines or large-scale data processing systems
- Knowledge of vectorized execution, query operators, or runtime optimization
- Familiarity with JVM profiling, memory management, or data exchange
- Experience with Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, or cloud object stores
- Contributions to open-source projects
Worth weighing
- No salary or specific benefits listed
- Remote position based in Portugal may have different time zone challenges
- Focus on performance engineering may require deep technical expertise
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Listed by Dremio on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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